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Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute - http://fsi.org.za - founded in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. Jacques is a regular contributor to public debates on politics, science and morality in the South African media, via columns, op-eds, television and radio. He blogs on these and other topics on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za - and is active on Twitter as @JacquesR . He believes that the world be a far better place if nobody wanted to read clickbait, and could all explain why.

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COVID-19, South Africa, and humility regarding scientific reasoning 0
- Coronavirus Africa (Covid 19), Health Care, South Africa
- 18.03.2020.
Eusebius McKaiser (host of a show on South Africa’s Radio 702) and I were meant to be part of a public discussion at WiSER (based at Wits University) on COVID-19 and its social implications later this week. The conversation was in the end postponed – not because of health risks (although that is now an
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South Africa’s FW de Klerk, the Democratic Alliance, and crimes against sanity 0
- Civil Liberties, Morality, Politics, Social Justice, South Africa
- 26.02.2020.
Sometimes a technical definition of something matters significantly less than the demonstrable effects it has had. If Harvey Weinstein is acquitted of the various rape charges he’s facing, that would have no implications for the women he has abused (if he is indeed guilty, as I believe he is). Defending conduct, or a system of
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Zille vs. Haffajee on hate speech and the Economic Freedom Fighters 0
- Democracy, Development, Politics, South Africa
- 26.08.2019.
Before we talk about what the law says, we should talk and think about what sort of society we hope for the law to help create. The law is always going to be an imperfect tool for managing millions of often selfish, confused, partisan, and otherwise compromised humans. So when talking about liberal values such
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Race-based party membership: Steven Friedman on BLF 0
- Morality, Politics
- 05.08.2019.
Steven Friedman is right to say that Black First Land First (BLF) should be allowed to compete as a political party, even though they limit membership to black voters only. He makes this case in his Business Day column of July 31 (paywalled), but you can also read it on his Facebook wall. The South
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